Editing Fortifications

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{{Fortifications}}
As stated in the manual, castles provide increased security for towns. Fort adds [[wall]] to town's defenses. The wall is impassable by non-flying enemy creatures (without advanced [[Teleport]] spell), but has a drawbridge for defending creatures to pass through, back and forth if needed. Fort is a prerequisite for all [[creature dwelling]]s. Additionally, building a Fort to a town changes the town's appearance on the [[adventure map]].

The upgrade to Fort is Citadel, which adds primary [[arrow tower]] to town's defenses, and also adds a [[moat]] in front of the wall. An exception to this are [[Tower]] towns, which do not have a moat but instead building a Citadel adds several [[Land Mine]]s in front of the wall. One of the greatest advantages of the moat is, that ground units end their movement to it, and cannot move further until their next round (see additional features [[Moat]] page). Note that this also works for defending creatures trying to get across the moat. Additionally, Citadel increases the creature dwellings' growth by 50%.

The final defense structure is Castle, which adds two more (secondary) arrow towers and strengthens the wall. The two arrow towers have half the strength of the primary tower added by Citadel. Further, production of creature dwellings is increased by 100%.

== Types of fortifications ==

There are three different types of fortifications:
* [[Walls|Town walls]], including [[Drawbridge]]
* [[Arrow Towers]]
* [[Moat|Moats]]

== Fortifications strength==

With the exception of [[moat]] every part of the fortications has a number of hitpoints which enable them to withstand only up to several attacks during a [[siege]]. Fortifications can only be damaged by:
* {{Cn|Catapult}}
* {{Cn|Cannon}}
* {{sn1|spell=Earthquake}} spell
* {{Cn|Cyclops|noname=}}{{Cn|Cyclops King|name=Cyclopes and Cyclops Kings}}

The following table shows the number of hitpoints for each type of fortifications:

{| frame=box border cellspacing=0 cellpadding=4 style="background-color:#{{grey 4}}; text-align:center; margin:5px 20px 10px 0px;"
|- bgcolor={{Grey 1}}
! colspan=4 style="color:white" | Fortifications' hitpoints
|- style="background-color:#{{grey 2}};"
|
! style="text-align:center;"|[[File:buildings_Fort.gif|50px|link=]]<br>Fort !! [[File:buildings_Citadel.gif|50px|link=]]<br>Citadel  !! [[File:buildings_Castle.gif|50px|link=]]<br>Castle 
|-
! Wall segment
| 2 || 2 || 3 
|-
! Drawbridge
| 2 || 2 || 2
|-
! Keep
| - || 2 || 2
|-
! Secondary Arrow Towers
| - || - || 2
|-

|}

[[Category: Buildings common to all towns]]